Emergency Personnel perform a high altitude rescue of a construction worker who was temporarily paralyzed due to back problems while working on the Patroon Island Bridge in Rensselaer, N.Y. on Thursday, June 19, 2014. (Tom Brenner/ Special to the Times Union) ORG XMIT: 00027449A

Emergency Personnel perform a high altitude rescue of a construction worker who was temporarily paralyzed due to back problems while working on the Patroon Island Bridge in Rensselaer, N.Y. on Thursday, June 19, 2014. (Tom Brenner/ Special to the Times Union) ORG XMIT: 00027449A